Researchers Tout Efficiency Breakthrough with New 'inexact' Chip
Posted May 19, 2012 2:42 PM
From Engadget:
Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new "inexact" chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency.
Re: Researchers Tout Efficiency Breakthrough with New 'inexact' Chip
05/21/2012 10:41 AM
Huh...? (not much of an article)..."their inexactness comes not just from one process, but a variety of different measures that can be used on their own or together -- including ... "pruning", which eliminates rarely used portions of the chip. All of that naturally comes with some trade-offs (less defined video processing is one example given)..."
So ~ will this be the start of another 'new-wave-trand'...?
Xact-NO blades for surgeons...
. . . perhaps popularizing and giving NEW MEANING to the training of programmers:
"Programming for Dummies" ~ (earn your diploma with an 'almost' passing grade!)
. . . etc.
Hmmmm... insofar as "...less defined video processing..." Sounds like a new excuse for someone, to say that the reason they don't quite resemble their photo on the (dating-site) is because they uploaded it through a system using one of these 'new' processors...
Re: Researchers Tout Efficiency Breakthrough with New 'inexact' Chip
